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Formed in late-'90s Brooklyn, Mos Def and Talib Kweli's Black Star project never truly took off. The pair only recorded one full-length album, Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star. But while they didn't sell slabs, they reshaped minds, tossing off...

Even if your knowledge of that odd urban creature commonly known as the hipster is limited to whatever you see on TV, there's still a pretty good chance you know Diplo. He's the froggy-voiced star of the BlackBerry Torch commercial that's undoubte...

Have you ever had one of those really fun nightmares where everyone is dancing at superspeed while eating loads of bad drugs, shrieking like overloaded human synths and playing 32-bit videogames while wearing rubber underwear? Well, you've obvious...

For a certain kind of music snob, there's nothing more annoying than all that saccharine radio pop stuff called bachata. At best, it's elevator muzak. At worst, it sounds like a sad baby wailing over a karaoke tape full of stuttering guitar, bongo...

In the eternal pantheon of R&B divadom, there's a hierarchy and a history. The rank and order of things, though, is something that will be debated forever by full-time fans and casual critics, so we'll just step away from that messy, brutal battle...

For a pixie-ish twin sister act like Tegan and Sara, the inherent novelty and cuteness of your situation can be both a good and a bad thing. It's good because two physically identical, twentysomething siblings writing songs and strumming guitars i...